my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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The airplane impacted one residential structure and 20 vehicles, which were damaged or destroyed by impact or post-impact fire.—Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2025 With a touch of a button, the airplane lands itself.—Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 Honda expanded into automobiles in 1963, then its research and development subsidiary—the same one now working on rockets—secretly started designing an airplane in 1986.—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025 This simple style comes with a V-neckline that’s perfect for showing off necklaces, and it can be worn on the airplane with your coziest sweats.—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for airplane
: a fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft that is driven by a propeller or by a forceful stream of gases backward and is supported by the reaction of the air against its wings
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